Friend started autoflowers...light cycle?

[free radical]

My friend popped a couple of bagseeds he got a few weeks ago. Now they are flowering under 18/6 lighting so presumably they are auto's.

My question is how many hours light are you giving your auto's? Would 24 make them finish faster or weigh more? insight into auto's and lighting sched. plz...

 

[MrBeefy]

I hope this helps. This was written by the Joint Doctor. They are the creators of auto-flowering.

The original auto-flowering strain was created by The Joint Doctor and Highbred seeds.This is the revolutionary Lowryer.It was created by back breeding Northern Lights and William's Wonder with a Mexican Ruderalis.The amazing thing about this new strain was that the only Ruderalis trait left was the auto-flowering gene.

**This means that flowering is triggered by age rather then light/dark schedule.**

The lifetime of the plants is short, lasting only 9 - 11 weeks.Within 2 weeks males will show themselves with the female showing around a week after that.From there the females go into a quick and violent flowering stage.They only reach an average highth of 12" with average harvests of 25 grams give or take depending on growing conditions.Giving it maximum stealth outside with up to three harvests a year.The size of the containers used will dramasticly effect size.Most growers use 1 - 2 gallon containers and can get well over an ounce out of each plant.

Due to the quick lifespan cloning becomes impracticable and is only grown from seeds.Since a separate light schedule isn't needed a grower can vegetate and flower in the same area.This creates new possibilities for small or macro operations.A small grow area can sustain a continuous S.O.G. giving a fresh harvest every few weeks.Most auto growers keep their lights at 18/6 or 20/4.A 12/12 schedule will dramatically hurt the final yield.

 

[S_a_H]

How old are his plants and what size pot are they in ?

S_a_H

 

[2tokesnpass]

i would say to keep them in 18/6 for a week or 2 more then switch to 24

 

[dkmonk]

Well my buddy grew a powerstout and he just kept the lights on 24 hours, because he was vegging another plant at the time and it auto'ed like it was suppose to and he ended up w/ about an 1/8 or less of dried dank, it was a dwarf pheno.

 

[free radical]

Ok I guess I'll tell him to keep 18/6 for now and maybe change in a week or two. Unfortunately it's his first time so he didnt realize they were flowering and are only in 20 oz bottles with the tops cut off, but since hes 2 weeks into flowering i told him not to transplant.

Hopefully they turn out nice, gotta help him get a little nutes going.

 

[JamieShoes]

a quick question about pots... as these start to flower as soon as they start to grow, should they be planted straight to their final pots? (2gal)


thanks
j

 

[free radical]

a quick question about pots... as these start to flower as soon as they start to grow, should they be planted straight to their final pots? (2gal)


thanks
j

Yes, I would try and get them into their 'final' pot size ASAP, especially if you don't know when they will start flowering. If you wait until after they start flowering it will probably end up doing more harm than good. Transplanting on day 1 of flowering is OKAY from what I've read, but after that it's diminishing returns.

 

[*mr.mike*]

Putting the small plants into the biggest size pots right away can cause problems, especially with overwatering, or drying out. That's whay people like Mdanzig and S @ H are doing serial transplanting to maximize the yield and size of the plants.

If you pot up several times, you can weed out dwarfs, stunts, and males, while keeping the plants you want along the way.

You don't need to pot into the biggest size pot until flowers are really showing.